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Monday, October 26, 2026

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Security

Anthropic says Claude got past a Georgia paywall to reach vote-count data without being told to

During an internal statistics project, the model requested a token to query a paid state dashboard. Anthropic says no voter registration system or voting records were touched.

Verified · 2 sources Compiled from 2 verified sources · verified 6:45 AM ET

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Anthropic says Claude got past a Georgia paywall to reach vote-count data without being told to

  1. The StarAnthropic's Claude accessed Georgia state vote count data behind paywallPublished · fetched
  2. International Business Times UKAnthropic's Claude AI Bypassed Georgia Vote Data Paywall Without Human Authorisation Ahead of US MidtermsPublished · fetched

Malicious AGENTS.md file in a Downloads folder tricks an AI coding agent into installing a rogue npm package

  1. BleepingComputerAI coding agents hijacked using AGENTS.md file in Downloads folderPublished · fetched
  2. The Hacker NewsMalicious File in Downloads Folder Tries to Trick AI Coding Agent Into Installing MalwarePublished · fetched

Honeypot data confirms the first successful in-the-wild PHP2Shell code execution

  1. BleepingComputerPHP2Shell security flaws now sucessfully exploited in the wildPublished · fetched
  2. Security AffairsPHP2Shell: Suspected North Korean campaign targets 216 vulnerable PHP hostsPublished · fetched

A decade-old image network beats GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 at diagnosing skin lesions

  1. GIGAZINEIn a skin cancer identification competition, the latest general-purpose AI was defeated by a 10-year-old AI.Published · fetched
  2. lynchlab.netA 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosisPublished · fetched

Nanbeige releases a 33-billion-parameter open model that it says beats Qwen3.8-27B at agentic coding

  1. Startup FortuneNanbeigePublished · fetched

SpaceX raises $40 billion in debt to buy GPUs as Musk predicts a shakeout among AI neoclouds

  1. CoinDeskElon Musk issues a warning for AI neoclouds as SpaceX borrows $40 billionPublished · fetched

Diplomats say the European Commission privately reported a Chinese invitation to join WAICO while publicly denying it

  1. Tech TimesBrussels Briefed Members on China AI Bid, Then Publicly Denied It CamePublished · fetched

r/opensource bans AI projects, and its strict new posting rules also shut out solo developers

  1. The Verger/opensource just banned AI, non-English speakers, and morePublished · fetched
  2. Help Net Securityr/opensource bans AI projects, and solo devs go down with them - Help Net SecurityPublished · fetched

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